La grammaire du noon PhD dissertation Documenting cultural events of cangin

This thesis provides a description of cangin-noon, one of the dialects of noon, which focussed on several aspects of the language: the grammar, cultural events, narratives and riddles. The analysis is based on the collected data that are part of the thesis. The project’s aim is to document cultural events in Cangin, a dialect of Noon (ISO 639-3:snf), whose population is estimated at 9000. Noon is spoken in the Thiès area, a region in the west of Senegal (14°48'0""N / 16°56'0""W). Their culture is very different from that of surrounding groups. This culture is being lost, and the project focuses on documenting ceremonial performances and cultural knowledge in order to preserve a record aof a unique culture. The corpus will further contribute to the speech communities’ efforts to maintain and strengthen their language and culture.